Discounted Final Fantasy 14 Online billing starts January 2012

By Robert Purchese Published 6 December, 2011

A service you'll pay for?

Monthly Final Fantasy 14 Online billing returns on 6th January 2012, Square Enix has announced.

All game accounts will be suspended on 5th January to ensure nobody subscribes without explicit prior consent.

Monthly subscriptions to Final Fantasy 14 Online will be lowered from £8.99/€12.99 to £6.99/€9.99 until the late 2012/early 2013 launch of Final Fantasy 14 Online Version 2.0. This is when the much-delayed PS3 version of FF14 will appear, too.

The MMO's 90-day subscription fee has fallen from £18.87/€26.97 to £12.57/€17.97; and the 180-day fee from £34.14/€47.94 to £21.54/€29.94.

Final Fantasy 14 Online has been without a subscription fee for more than a year. Square Enix decided to waive the cost in light of a shonky launch. The free period was then extended; it's been a tough year.

But Final Fantasy 14 Online Version 2.0 hopes to change all that.

The opening FF14 Online cinematic.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 6 months ago

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  • superfurry #1 6 months ago

    What are the numbers like for the player base? Are the servers struggling?

  • a8a #2 6 months ago

    Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I hope they can turn it around. I was a big fan of FFXI, and thoroughly disappointed with FFXIV - but if 2.0 has some actual gameplay (and less broken input), then I'll give it another go.

  • Justmotley #3 6 months ago

    Although FfXIV still has a really long way to go I am hopeful they can pull it together for 2.0. I'm not sure if I will subscribe in January but may take a look later in the year

  • abigsmurf #4 6 months ago

    I didn't play it for free. In fact, despite forking out £30 for it, I only played it 3 times. Too many things were utterly broken at the most basic level. It wasn't even buggy (in fact its one of the least buggy MMOs I've played at launch) everything that was wrong with it was a design choice.

    They've a long way to go to convince me that this game is in any way salvagable.

  • levitate #5 6 months ago

    It would be a shame if the game went belly-up before it even started, but I can't see myself playing this. I've heard too many horror stories from the launch and I don't have time to waste being upset with design decisions in a computer game.

  • Torkin #6 6 months ago

    You should re-review the game since so much time has passed and supposedly many changes have been done. Is it worth playing now?

  • silversun #7 6 months ago

    There is still a playerbase atm.
    Some worlds maybe have more people than others.
    lots of disscussion on what people want see the game turn out like, some want it more like final fantasy 11 , other want a bit of change from that.

    last patch was good but they can still improve alot better for when 2.0 comes out.

  • AmethystSword #8 6 months ago

    I've been playing and it is infinitly better then when it came out but, I dunno, with all this Version 2 stuff maybe its best for people to wait for that...

    @superfurry - Servers are holding up well I guess. Not empty but not crowded to the brim.

  • Pacman8MyGhostkart #9 6 months ago

    SwTor will have been out for half a month by the time this game is asking for money and almost a year before it will be released on Ps3 in the version that they think is worth charging full price for.

    I don't see this going well. Fingers crossed gang!

  • Kami #10 6 months ago

    It was a nice experience, if a little barren and simplistic in places.

    I think discounted subs are necessary, but I - like others - am willing to wait and see, and maybe dip back in as an when the notes scream at me to return.

  • RagingAvatar #11 6 months ago

    I played about 20 hours of it - and £6.99 isn't cheap enough to get me back. Needs to be £2.99 - seriously - then I'd come back.